Chapter 53

In the display cabinet next to it is an old porcelain bowl. Li Du noticed earlier that this bowl comes from the Warring States Period, more than 400 years ago, and is one of the highlights of this auction.

The bug passed through the tempered glass display case without hindrance, and after flying in, it landed on the bowl, and then put its mouth on the mouth of the bowl and greedily sucked something.

Li Du stood by and watched strangely, and soon his feelings changed.

It seemed that something was pouring into his body, which made him feel a little refreshed. In addition, he clenched his fists, and felt that his strength seemed to be stronger.

After stopping on the bowl for a few seconds, the bug flew up again, flapped its wings and flew to another showcase.

Inside this showcase is an 18th-century nautical clock with a bronze texture and simple style. The bug also stuck its mouth to the clock, and greedily sucked something again.

Li Du could only vaguely feel that it was sucking something, but he didn't know what it was.

Leaving the clock, the bug flew towards a silver statue, and Li Du followed. Needless to say, the bug flew up and started sucking again.

A few seconds later, it flew onto a medieval English longbow. After sucking this time, it didn't look for the auction item anymore. Instead, it flew in the air to stretch its body as if stretching its waist, and then flew onto Li Du's shoulder.

At this moment, the yew wood bow of the English longbow suddenly broke in two, and fell from the support just like that, and after falling on the display case, it shattered into several pieces like glass.

The couple who were looking at the longbow in front of the display case were taken aback, and the woman opened her mouth and shouted, "Ah! Ah! What's going on?!"

Li Du backed away subconsciously, just as the people around him crowded over, he backed away calmly.

His face was calm, but his heart was full of wind and clouds. He knew very well that the change of the longbow must be related to Xiao Chong!

There were many people from the auction company at the scene, and the security supervisor and the manager walked quickly together, and then they were stunned when they saw the change of the longbow.

The couple waved their hands away together: "We don't know what happened, but suddenly the bow and arrow broke and broke into several pieces.

After hearing this, the manager smiled to appease the couple, and then told the security supervisor, "Quickly, go to the monitoring room and see what's going on!"

Each showcase is monitored by cameras, the purpose is to avoid accidents.

Li Du was a little embarrassed, he had something to do with this matter, but no one knew about it.

Those who participated in the auction were all master collectors, and there were experts among them. After a careful look, a silver-haired old man frowned and said, "It seems that the bow and arrow are broken due to the aging of the wood caused by natural weathering."

Li Du looked at the porcelain bowl and the nautical clock, and he felt that the porcelain bowl was no longer as smooth and beautiful as when he first saw it, and the nautical clock was no longer simple but old.

A thought suddenly came to his mind, could it be that the little worm absorbed the vitality of these items just now?

In front of the Longbow showcase, the security supervisor quickly returned with an IPAD and showed the surveillance video to the manager and the elderly.

The old man looked at it and said: "Starting from here, in five seconds, it suddenly and quickly becomes, becomes, becomes old?"

The manager said in a daze: "Yes, it seems that the time in the showcase is not five seconds but five hundred years, but how could this be?"

"Is someone releasing peroxide gas into the display cabinet? The rapid oxidation will cause the wood to age rapidly." The security director said with a solemn expression.

The manager's expression changed, and he said, "Go check other exhibits!"

The other auction items did not appear broken, which made the manager and others feel relieved.

One person noted changes to the porcelain bowls, marine clocks and silver statues, saying: "They also seem to be a bit older than before."

The security personnel immediately dispatched all the people who gathered around to watch the excitement and sent them out one by one. Obviously, they suspected that someone was among them to cause sabotage.

However, because the people present were either rich or expensive, and there was no definite evidence to prove that someone was tampering with them, the auction company did not dare to imprison them, so they had to send them away first to prevent further damage to the auction items.

Li Du went out, he was still thinking about what the manager and the old man said, they said that these things had aging problems in a short period of time.

So, is it possible that what the bugs sucked away is not the vitality, but the time of these things?

This guess shocked him, but it was the most reliable guess.

Playboy and Hans also came out afterward, and they were sent to another hall of the hotel to rest, and the auction company prepared drinks and snacks.

Drinking the juice casually, Li Du saw the manager walking in, first bowed, and then explained with regret that due to an accident, the auction will be suspended.

Everyone complained immediately, the manager kept apologizing, and people started to leave in twos and threes.

Li Du got up to leave, and then he turned his head and saw Xiao Chong crouching on his shoulder in astonishment!

Subconsciously, he asked Hans, "How long have we been out?"

Hans said, "Who knows, I didn't check the time."

The Playboy smiled and said, "22 minutes, it was 10:25 when we came out, and now it is 47."

Li Du found a reason casually, and he was very surprised. From this point of view, including the time that Xiao Chong appeared in the exhibition hall earlier, it must have been twenty-five or six minutes in total.

And he is just a little bit tired now, not very tired. You must know that when he was practicing controlling the bug yesterday, he could only let it out for eighteen minutes!

The bug absorbed the time of the auction item, enhancing his ability to control the bug.

Or rather, increased his energy.

After leaving the hotel, Playboy invited them to lunch, because Li Du was Chinese, he invited them to a Chinese restaurant for dinner.

The catering industry in Flagstaff City is very developed. After all, there are several universities supporting the consumer market.

The name of the Chinese restaurant is Yushanfang. When Li Du saw the name, he gasped. The owner is so damn courageous, he dared to name his restaurant such an overbearing name.

The decoration of the restaurant adopts a Chinese style, with porcelain, landscape paintings, pictures of ladies in Tang and Song Dynasties, as well as festive red lanterns and Chinese knots, which can really fool Americans.

After they sat down and didn't order first, the playboy asked: "Did that bastard Andrew lose you a piece of valuable news? Did he give it to you?"

Hans shrugged and said, "Not yet, but we're not in a hurry."

Playboy took out his mobile phone and called, and said, "We must urge him, this guy is notoriously old!"

He deliberately disgusted Andrew, but Andrew had a very tough temper, he refused to lose face in front of the playboy, and immediately asked Hans to answer the phone, and then said something.

After hanging up the phone, Hans grinned: "Thank you, buddy, that guy gave me a time and address, I hope I can get something again."